Mowitch Year 5 Riparian Cover
Years 1, 3, and 5 (2006) Riparian Development at Mowitch – Cover
Cover Type	Year 1 (2002)			Year 3 (2004)				Year 5 (2006)
	Unbiased Average Quadrat Canopy Cover	90% Confidence Interval		Year 3 Targets	Unbiased Average Quadrat Canopy Cover	90% Confidence Interval		Year 5 Targets	Stratified Mean (Standard Estimate)	Stratified Mean (Bootstrap Estimate)	95% Confidence Interval (Bias-Corrected Bootstrap Estimate)
		Lower	Upper			Lower	Upper				Lower	Upper
		Bound	Bound			Bound	Bound				Bound	Bound
NATIVE
Herbs & Forbs	16.9%	11.6%	22.2%	>70%	120.4%	104.5%	136.3%	-	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Shrubs	5.0%	3.3%	6.7%	>30%	20.5%	10.7%	30.3%	>50%	19.4%	19.7%	14.2%	27.1%
Trees	1.5%	0.1%	2.9%	>25%	26.1%	11.7%	40.5%	>40%	19.3%	19.3%	15.2%	23.6%
TOTAL NATIVE	10.7%	7.5%	13.8%		76.5%	55.6%	97.4%		38.6%	38.8%	29.7%	47.6%
TOTAL NNI	12.5%	8.6%	16.5%	<2%	89.4%	79.8%	99.0%	<5%	4.9%	4.9%	3.7%	6.4%
n/a = Not assessed
Note:
It is not appropriate to compare directly the results from various years because the estimates were calculated differently.  Also note that the Years 1 and 3 results included herbs and forbs in the totals, while herbs and forbs were not a monitoring component in Year 5.